After the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki the U.S. – Soviet relations had reached one of their lowest points. The conduct of relationship in the contest of the nuclear weapons competition made most people to accept nuclear weapons as part of the natural order. For them the distant dangers of nuclear war became physical reality. In this climate the idea of thermonuclear weapons born in the USA transformed in military psychology into concept of nuclear deterrence. However the threat of nuclear destruction has caused the world wide movement that resists the temptation to commit mass murder which unconditionally could be called a suicide. The nuclear scientists with rear exception are convinced that the chances of developing an effective shield from the nuclear weapon are extremely remote. That is one of the main useful lessons from Cold War history.

This article, based on the analysis of declassified documents from Russian archives, is devoted to consideration of a dual influence of the beginning of the Vietnamese War on the further development of the Partisans for Peace Movement. On the one hand, it found its expression in strengthening of the splitting activities of the Chinese representatives within this Movement that began in the end of the 1950s. On the other hand, the widespread protest’s movement against US aggression in Vietnam had stimulated the search by the Partisans for Peace Movement more close cooperation with other anti-war movements and organizations of the world peaceful forces, in spite of the existing between them the ideological and political contradictions, which were typical for the Cold War era.

Gustave Flaubert asserted: “Do not touch idols… their gilding will remain on your fingers”. But the principal heroine of this article, the beloved woman of Mayakovsky Lilya Brik did not follow Flaubert’s warning. To save Mayakovsky’s original heritage Lilya Brik in 1935 requested assistance from Stalin, the living Soviet god who at that time announced Mayakovsky “the best and the most talented poet of our Soviet epoch”. However Lilya Brik did not bask in fame of this propaganda myth. As early as from the mid-1950s Lilya Brik became the target of permanent propaganda attacks organized from above: as a lady of cosmopolitan Weltanschauung and sexually liberated in her personal life and, furthermore, a Jewess Brik obviously did not fit the official image of faithful and ideologically consistent girl friend of the proletarian poet. This article narrates how the CPSU officials and specialists in literary studies engaged by the party officials tried to rewrite in retrospect the love history of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Lilya Brik making her the femme fatale guilty of the poet’s death.

In the final article in this series the development of scientific contacts of A.V.Florovsky with Soviet historians in the late 1950s – 1960s was described. Particular attention was paid to his communication with E.P.Podyapolskaya, who took over the editing of “The Letters and papers of the Emperor Peter the Great”. The visit of A.V.Florovsky in the USSR in 1967 was characterized. The article presents the arguments according to which closure of Soviet science was one of the reasons that hindered the study of Peter the Great’s theme. In conclusion, the specificity of scientific contacts of A.V.Florovsky conceptualized.

In the conclusive part of the article the author concentrates on the dramatic events which happened during the last ten days of the Karlowitz congress (from the 6-th to 16-th of January 1699). Strange as it may seem this short span of time was charged by tremendous tensions fraught with the failure of the Congress. Quite unexpectedly help came from Procopius Voznitsin who, pressured by the circumstances, chose to give up the role of troublemaker for that of troubleshooter.

In 1993 I met in Moscow Leonid Shebarshin former chief of the Soviet Foreign Intelligence Services. After retirement he did create private security organisation which did employ former professionals of the state security system – KGB, who now were protecting new private enterprises. The simplified “vaucher” form of the rapid privatisation, which started in Russia from the beginning of 1993, created many new economic and political problems. The development of the conflict between the president and the parliament lead to the unconstitutional dissolvent of the parliament by Boris Yeltsyn and the decision of the parliament to dismiss the president.

The language, according to Jacobin leaders, was a political instrument, speaking and moving the revolution. The controversy normative language / jargon was represented as controversy of moral and spiritual values: patriots / emigrants, progress / darkness. The French language personified Republic, Enlightenment, Liberty, patriotism, positive knowledge, providing with gentle and harmonious sounding, lucidity and methodicalness, reason. On the contrary, the dialects were perceived as a symbol of feudalism, barbarity, slavery, superstition and fanaticism, translating harsh and indecent idioms, jargon and vulgarity, sensibility.